Unbridled consumption leads not to the promised land, rather difficult times

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Clive Hamilton.

nbridled consumption encouraged by the “business as usual” brigade has taken the world deep into energy debt and seen the world community rush past several planetary boundaries.

And of course, while we consumed and gouged the earth of its resources, it was assumed that happiness was, because of our affluence, forthcoming and a certainty.

However, that was not been the case and the cost of our casualness is descending upon us in many ways, among them resource depletion and a seriously questionably future because of a disrupted climate system.

Clive Hamilton, an Australian author and public intellectual who since 2008 has been Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, a joint centre of Charles Sturt University and the University of Melbourne, has written about happiness on The Conversation.

Read Hamilton’s views - “The lies of happiness: living with affluenza but without fulfilment”.